Skeletor
2d ago
You possess no knowledge on this subject. That's fine, most people don't. But no one who does has been especially surprised by the actual outcome of any of Jake Paul's fights. He's defeated some over-the-hill MMA guys, the elderly husk of Tyson, and even a couple of random journeyman boxers here and there, but then he fought an actual serious world-tier heavyweight and got crushed.
That said, personally I really don't mind him. Honestly for how late he got started on the sport he's not bad, and the slobs he's fought are the type lots of guys start out fighting, especially guys without amateur experience. He might be some kind of edgelord by YouTube standards but until he rapes someone or gets some mob ties he's still a cuddlebug by boxing standards.
Skeletor
5d ago
In C, you may get away with not checking the return value of a function that could error. In Rust, that is completely unacceptable and will make the compiler cry. The path of least resistance in C is to do nothing, while the path of least resistance in Rust is to handle the error.
This reminds me of learning BASIC on a Timex/Sinclair 1000, AKA the US release of the ZX81. It had this stupid gel-tab keyboard that made real typing impossible, but it would turn single keystrokes into full commands, even multiple commands per key which it would select contextually depending on where you were in the line you were typing. That and it called out syntax errors on the spot and wouldn't accept them until they were fixed.
This is all relevant to nothing, I'm just waxing nostalgic. For a machine with 2k native RAM (expandable to 16) it was an awesome kid's first computer to learn how to program out of a book.
Skeletor
8d ago
Now you know what women have to put up with.
Apparently not much, if things like this mild troll post elicit a comment like this.
For all you guys complaining about women not responding on dating apps, imagine our friend above times a hundred.
Who cares? You can still scroll past the dongs and go on a date. Or, if you really think "no responses" is a preferable state of affairs compared to having see random dicks, you can always just... not use it.
Skeletor
12d ago
Or else you continued to get laughed at and have power moved away from you because the rest of the (western at least) world stops accepting you as the primus inter pares
Aw jeez, and you're saying this won't happen if we show some cultural sensitivity? Liberal Europe can be as indignant as it wants while it finishes crawling into the grave, but why should anyone really care? No soothing they find acceptable would matter to the people they're busy handing their countries off to anyway.
Skeletor
12d ago
As we move to a more and more multi polar world US citizens need to realize that the rest of the world doesn't think like them and while in the past they had the luxury of being able to ignore what we said without much consequence this is fast dissipating and they will now need to learn some cultural sensitivity like the rest of us.
Or else what, exactly?
Skeletor
13d ago
Could you elaborate on this scary future? I'm getting sick of Indians being portrayed as an amorphous pestilence. Like a brown mongol horde dipped in shit that's about to destroy western civilizations.
Clearly you (or people who make such comments) find something about the character of Indians to be revolting.
Indians are what convinced me that there's a genetic component to filth-tolerance that's separate from general intelligence or conscientiousness. Africans in tin shacks post videos mocking their food handling practices.
Skeletor
13d ago
Europeans since the invention of the internet: You silly Americans, why do you think you need that huge military now that the Cold War is over? I bet it's just to oppress oil countries. Here in Europe we enlightened souls prefer to spend our budgets on our social welfare systems.
Russia: (rolls over and farts menacingly)
Europeans:
As far as European weak military goes, this is has been fully devised by US policy.
Yeah remember when Trump went over there in his first term and asked them to hit their NATO spending obligations and they basically laughed in his face? I do.
Skeletor
17d ago
Saddle the cable TV assets with impossible debt, spin them out for almost nothing, ride off into the sunset.
I know I could just go ask ChatGPT or something, but does anyone want to throw out even just a few sentences on how this is legal? What measures prevent every company from just pinning their debts on spinoffs meant to die, and why did those measures fail here?
Skeletor
19d ago
Oh sorry, obnoxious progressives and this one GOP guy with a retarded child. Nonetheless, this was never a real slur.
Skeletor
20d ago
My personal belief (so I guess a bad bet that I'm willing to commit to) is that within 10 to 30 years, we'll see major upheavals in Africa as it "comes online" so to speak.
People said this kind of shit about South Africa thirty years ago and look how that worked out. Just like the large heavily-black American crime shithole city I live near, ten years away from a big comeback for the last fifty years.
Skeletor
20d ago
terms that are considered slurs today
It was never a slur except in the minds of obnoxious progressives. Normal people don't give a shit and this kind of slur-hunting is way past expiration.
Skeletor
21d ago
"The point I am trying to make is that cheap, mass-produced slop has existed in the music industry for as long as production costs were cheap enough to justify it."
This conversation felt way too cute to me. Lots of describing Record Industry Facts as if they're more important than they are. Plus stuff like the following.
If the record companies wanted to, they could have always signed as many of these musicians as they could, pay for a recording session, pay the musicians a low flat fee, and completely spam the market for little cost. If they get a hit or two out of the deal, great. If not, they're only out ten grand.
Hearing that the requirements have gone from a group of trained people and ten thousand dollars to something a kid can do on their phone for free did not make me feel the way I think it was supposed to here. By this logic everyone concerned about AI visual art can just relax. After all, visual media companies could have always hired infinite boardwalk sketch artists to spam the market, but they didn't.
Skeletor
28d ago
I buy raw Korean meat from Korean markets.
Do they keep it separate or does it get mixed up with the animal meat sometimes?
Skeletor
29d ago
And also the posts of jews who do not. But these are usually not counted, for some reason.
If Jews don't count as an identity bloc operating in their own interest then literally no one does. Like yes we know that every random Jewish podiatrist or whatever doesn't work for AIPAC or something, people can quit telling us like we're supposed to suddenly turn around in wonder and say "gee whiz I guess it really isn't literally every Jew, I love Israel now!"
It's a trifling observation that's only significant by way of how little you see it made in reference to any other groups. We can speak collectively of whites, blacks, whatever all day and no one ever feels the need to do this particular dance.
Skeletor
29d ago
Having said that, I don't think this is true. I propose a much simpler (albeit uncharitable) explanation: jealousy.
Smells like cope. Jews are like 2% of the US population and look white, barely anyone would notice their existence if it weren't for the stuff in your first paragraph and general Israel bullshittery.
Skeletor
30d ago
generally considered well behaved
There are standards of behavior beyond not shitting in the street or doing drive-by shootings.
Skeletor
30d ago
So I decided the rhinos needed something to eat besides fish and one another. The problem was, they were so hostile and hungry that they would gobble up every other terrestrial life form on sight. Thus I decided to spawn a race of elves, but adapted to live in the ocean.
I made them aquatic, gave them fins, etc. but to keep them from trying to go on land, build things, and get wiped out, I deleted their frontal lobe and essentially reduced them to animals. I let them keep their emotions and capacity for language though, since those seemed to help them breed, which I had them do at a prodigious rate as egg-laying hermaphrodites.
It worked out pretty well. I made them physically weak but curious and outgoing. They would swim right up to a bunch of rhinos intending to blabber at them nonsensically and get shot immediately. Eventually you'd see rhino ships out there harvesting them in bulk via cannon fire.
Guys they made a Chaos God Simulator, they just gave it cute aesthetics but it's pretty great.
Skeletor
30d ago
I mean the post I responded to is just a "waaah why do you care" post, not some bold challenge he should feel bad about shirking. It's not even hard to answer. Over-representation in hostile/degenerate institutions and industries, and really outrageously overt meddling in American politics on behalf of their pet ethnostate, boom done. If any other country tried pulling shit like getting BDS laws passed in the US there would be calls to bomb them.
Skeletor
30d ago
Now mods, I don't know what's going to happen here, but in pre-emptive defense of my boy @SecureSignals here I just really want to stress the fact that this dude asked.
Skeletor
1mo ago
I know someone else here has to play this. If you're not familiar, it's exactly what it sounds like, except that it's not a "god game" in the traditional sense as much as it is a fun toy. There are no win or lose conditions, no mana to squeeze out of your subjects prayers, you're just an omnipotent god. The intended appeal is simply the sheer amount of fuckery you can get up to with its complex set of systems relating to biology, culture, religion, etc.
Like for example, I rolled a big world with a huge mountain in the middle of it. So I hollowed out the inner portion and put down a limited population extremely powerful and ill-tempered angels who can only come and go from their home city via teleportation magic. Then I gave them a xenophobic patriarchal militaristic culture and the ability to remotely influence others toward their ways by invading their dreams.
Then I just filled the rest of the world up with random biomes, let the game populate it with whatever, and gave it a few centuries. All kinds of races emerged, and while some new cultures and religions did take root among them, for the most part the angels just kept making everyone more and more based. Endless fighting ensued. Occasionally I would decide I didn't like someone and sic the angels on them, just because it was more fun than dropping meteors or something.
Eventually the outside world came to be dominated by a race of warlike rhino men, with a disempowered minority of less capable snake men living under them. For shits and giggles I decided to turn the snakes reproductive rate through the roof and see what happens.
When I came back an hour later or whatever I found the snake population smaller than ever. The goddamn rhinos were basically genociding them. Whenever a city would get so many snakes in it that the little icon next to the name turned from a rhino to a snake, the rest of the rhino cities would go "hey we have the xenophobic trait, fuck that snake city" and gang up on it.
I was so amused by this that I finished the snakes off myself and rewarded the rhinos by making them a bloated race of purple and green cannibals with an astronomical breeding rate, designed to do nothing but fight and eat one another for the rest of eternity while serving as feeder mice for my race of evil angels.
And you thought you were "a bad guy in video games" because you did the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Skyrim.
Skeletor
1mo ago
Listen, you claim not to be an HBD coper and I guess I believe you, but that just leaves me wondering exactly what you're coping so hard for. There's no amount of re-litigating the military historical record that's going to turn Sub-Saharan Africa into anything but a collection of primitive tribal civilizations that mostly get stepped on by everyone who comes along.
Like deadass, how much am I supposed to believe better geography or something would really do for a population missing two SD worth of average IQ?
I will always remember this comment on /r/WarCollege that argues Paul Kagame is one of the most notable military leader alive and I always wonder how a person of that skill and intellect would have fared in a non-African conflict.
You mean you wonder what this one outlier smart guy might have done if he had existed among a population capable of maintaining an advanced civilization. Yeah that's kind of the whole point.
Skeletor
1mo ago
So yeah, maybe we should wait for some black-dominant polities doing some world conquering in the next few centuries or even a millennium before making a statement.
I consider it extremely unlikely that all prior history will turn out to be a fluke, and a continent with an average IQ of like 70 will suddenly get really good at warfare now that it's more complicated than ever. Pointing out the handful of times in the last ten-thousand years that anyone from there defeated an army that wasn't barefoot doesn't really change the equation. Africa sucks at everything and the reasons aren't actually mysterious.
Yeah but him losing a narrow decision to a reasonably okay boxer wasn't the payoff people wanted at all. They wanted to see him get pulverized.
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